Look who is talking.

US Secretary of Defense, Ashton B Carter thinks that Iraqi forces " lack the will to fight " after they fled in panic from Ramadi, capital of Anbar provice in Iraq, even though they outnumbered Islamic State, or IS, by 10 to 1. The reason for the panic is simple: they did not trust the Americans to provide air cover and the IS does not believe in the Geneva Conventions and will brutally murder any soldier they capture. Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida and brother of former president George W Bush, was recently confronted by a student, Ivy Ziedrich who accused his brother for the creation of IS. " Look, we can rewrite history all you want. But the simple fact is that we are in a much more unstable place because America pulled back," he replied. He was blaming Obama's exit from Iraq for all the problems. For us on the outside it does not matter whether Bush was responsible or Obama, we hold the US responsible. The IS has money to buy weapons, plus what it loots from government armories when it captures territory. The IS cannot be defeated unless it is wiped out in Syria, where it is based. Since terrorists do not wear colored jerseys to distinguish themselves all terrorists have to be hit. But this will hand victory to Bashar al Assad, which the US does not want. It wants to support good terrorists against Assad while helping Iraq battle the bad terrorists, like its stupid policy of good Taliban vs bad. Iraq wants the US to supply modern weapons to its army but, with oil prices falling, probably does not have the money to pay. Isn't it strange that Obama has no problem supplying billions of dollars worth of modern weapons to Pakistan to kill Indians but will not supply the same to Iraq to fight a scourge that the US created?  The present Iraqi army is made up of new recruits who may have joined just to get a job, with unemployment at over 25%, while the IS is being advised by former Iraqi army and intelligence officers. Where have these fellows come from? Turns out that top officers of the elite Republican Guard were bribed to betray Saddam Hussein so that US troops captured Baghdad without a fight. Some of those fellows are having their revenge. If Iraq is a mess then Libya is an anarchy, said former interim Prime Minster, Mahmoud Jibril. This was because Gaddafi was killed by Nato bombing, under the pretense of protecting civilians. If it is a matter of running away then no one does it better than the US, as their marines showed when hanging from helicopter skids, to escape from Saigon as the Viet Cong advanced. The US won World War II by using nuclear weapons and unlimited savagery, it was a draw in Korea and after that it was a rout in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, despite using napalm, dioxin, depleted uranium, drones and white phosphorus. They have run from Libya, which they liberated, and from Yemen where they were fighting the Al Qaeda. Trained by Americans the Iraqis are naturally very good at running. Well trained, what?